Philip Hammond Quotes
It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what sort of forces would they be?
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
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Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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Just think of any negativity that comes at you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.
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Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
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Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them.
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South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.
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The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.
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It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what sort of forces would they be?
